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Calendar: Screening: "Black Narcissus," a film selected and introduced by artist Naomi Fisher

Event Description

Artist Naomi Fisher, whose photograph in the permanent collection is on view in AMERICANA: Desiring Landscape, speaks briefly about the role of the natural world in her imagery and introduces Black Narcissus (1947), a film of her choice which reflects similar ideas in the exhibition.

This academy award winning Powell and Pressburger classic is set in a community of nuns struggling to establish a convent high in the Himalayas. Their spiritual aims are hampered by the arrival of a beautiful native girl and a young general, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad. Winner of two Oscars for Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography.

The Desiring Landscape gallery considers how representations of the landscape have been a means to explore human desires-from the sensual and sexual to the materialistic-to alternate interpretations of history. In correlation to the film, a brief, free public tour of Desiring Landscape and Edouard Duval-Carrié: Imagined Landscapes will also be offered at 6:30pm.